Moscow, Pennsylvania, 1891 – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique map of Moscow, Pennsylvania, 1891 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Moscow, Lackawanna County, Penn'a. 1891
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Moscow, Pennsylvania, 1891
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Moscow, a small borough in Lackawanna County in northeastern Pennsylvania, sat in the heart of the anthracite coal country in 1891. Its livelihood, like that of its neighbors, depended on the mines that dug hard coal from the surrounding hills and on the railroad lines that carried it to market. Nearby Scranton, the county seat and the valley's largest city, had grown quickly on coal, iron, and rail traffic, and families in Moscow commonly looked to its mines and shops for work. Many residents were immigrants or the children of immigrants from Wales, Ireland, Germany, and Eastern Europe, and their churches, fraternal lodges, and volunteer fire companies gave the town much of its social life. Mining accidents and the seasonal swings of the coal trade were a constant part of local life.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Moscow, Pennsylvania, drawn in 1891. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Pennsylvania |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,464 × 4,912 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Moscow, Lackawanna County, Penn'a. 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490592 |
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